Rogue Auction Notice Tip failed betrayal

[Crasical]

In the 'Steal the Stolen Items' rogue tip from the 'Auction Notice' tip in the level 28-ish range, you encounter Shock Treatment, who is targetable (and damageable) but will turn to friendly once the Wyvern mobs around her are cleared. At a later point in the mission, she'll complain that she 'doesn't want to, but I gotta kill you!'; but she never actually turns hostile. It seems that whatever trigger covers her rescue and then subsequent betrayal is broken.

[Rudra]

There are a few ways to 'break' that mission. As far as the betrayal goes, if you have sufficient distance from her, Shock Treatment does not go hostile to you. For instance, if you ignore the side where Shock Treatment is and make your way to the objective until the betrayal is supposed to happen, Shock Treatment gets the command to betray you, says she doesn't want to, then apologizes to her captors and mops the floor with them. When you go to her after the trigger, you can watch her obliterate them. Then you just walk up to her and she joins you for the rest of the mission. Or you can leave her fighting some Wyvern and race ahead towards the objective after freeing her but before the betrayal, the betrayal triggers, and a few moments later after she is done wiping out her opponents, she simply resumes going with you, no betrayal. (Edit: Sometimes, if you simply run far enough away from her, she drops the betrayal.)

 

Or conversely, you can grab easy XP off her by attacking her while she is Wyvern's captive. She doesn't fight back or even go Gremlin mode as long as her capture group is still around, and she gives her full normal reward upon defeat. (You can do this with several other NPCs in other tip missions to, but at the risk of making them uncompletable.)

 

Edited Saturday at 05:20 PM by Rudra